"Leon Reni Mel (1893-1984) Ink And Lavis "in Brittany""
Drawing by Léon Reni Mel, ink and wash signed lower right dated 1930 and located in Brittany. Painter trained with Fernand Cormon and Edouard Detaille had many successes with his portraits and landscapes mainly in the USA where he lived after the war until the mid-1930s. He came regularly to Brittany from where he brought back sketches for paintings that he was making in his Manhattan studio. See his complete biography on the internet at sergerenimel.com. 
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